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Thursday, June 21, 2012

RWANDA-SOUTH AFRICA: South Africa: Exiled Rwandan general accuses Kagame in death that sparked the genocide

By Associated Press, Updated: Thursday, June 21, 7:32 AM

JOHANNESBURG — A Rwandan general
who was once a top aide to Rwandan President Paul Kagame but now is
among his most prominent critics said Thursday that Kagame ordered the
killing of the previous president that sparked Rwanda’s 1994 genocide.
Gen. Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa made the accusation Thursday as
he testified in a Johannesburg courtroom about an attempt on his own
life in 2010 in South Africa. The shooting of Nyamwasa, and
developments in other countries, have raised suspicions that Rwanda’s
government has deployed hit teams against dissidents abroad. Rwanda
denies the accusations.

Asked why the three Rwandans and three Tanzanians on trial may
have wanted him dead, Nyamwasa, once Kagame’s military chief, described
a breakdown in his relationship with Kagame.
“I ran out of the country because my life was threatened,” Nyamwasa testified.
Nyamwasa
fled in 2010 to South Africa, where he was shot months after arrival.
Nyamwasa testified Thursday that a bullet remains lodged at the base of
his spinal column.
Rwanda’s government has denied involvement in the attempted murder.
Nyamwasa
testified Thursday that another Rwandan exiled in South Africa allowed
him to listen in secret to a telephone call with a top Rwandan army
official in Rwanda. Nyamwasa said the caller from Rwanda was looking for
someone to help “eliminate” Nyamwasa. Nyamwasa said he reported the
conversation to South African authorities before he was shot, but that
his security was stepped up only after the shooting.
He added, as a
further explanation of why he may have been targeted: “There are facts
in my knowledge that the president of Rwanda ordered the killing of the
former president of Rwanda, President Habyarimana.”
Rwanda’s
100-day genocide was sparked by the shooting down of then-President
Juvenal Habyarimana’s plane in 1994. Militants from the Hutu ethnic
majority blamed Tutsis, sparking the massacre of more than 500,000
Tutsis and moderate Hutus, a frenzied slaughter that was stopped when
Kagame’s Tutsi rebel group, the Rwandan Patriotic Front, toppled the
Hutu extremists.
While the Rwandan government blames Hutu
extremists for the crash that killed Habyarimana, accusations persisted
for years that Kagame’s Tutsi rebel force shot down the plane. A
French investigation completed earlier this year found that the missile
fire came from a military camp and not Tutsi rebels. French judges had
filed preliminary charges against Kagame’s allies and were investigating
the crash because a French air crew was killed.
Nyamwasa was not
allowed to elaborate Thursday after the judge ruled that the general was
merely speculating and not offering evidence of the suspects’ motives.
A
South African lawyer hired by Rwanda’s government to monitor the
proceedings, Gerhard van der Merwe, said after Thursday’s session that
it was unfortunate accusations could be leveled without Kagame being
given an opportunity to respond.
Nyamwasa was for years a top
Kagame aide. In testimony over the last two days, he has described a
falling out that may have led to his apparent demotion from national
security coordinator to ambassador to India in 2004.

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